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This document outlines the major time periods, terms, movements, and examples of notable authors in English literature from Old English to contemporary times. It discusses Old English from 600-1200 AD, exemplified by Beowulf. The Middle English period lasted from 1200-1500, with Geoffrey Chaucer as an example. The English Renaissance spanned 1500-1660 and was followed by the Tudor period from 1500-1558, characterized by humanism and authors like Thomas More and John Skelton. The Elizabethan period from 1558-1603 saw the High Renaissance and writers including Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare.
This document outlines the major time periods, terms, movements, and examples of notable authors in English literature from Old English to contemporary times. It discusses Old English from 600-1200 AD, exemplified by Beowulf. The Middle English period lasted from 1200-1500, with Geoffrey Chaucer as an example. The English Renaissance spanned 1500-1660 and was followed by the Tudor period from 1500-1558, characterized by humanism and authors like Thomas More and John Skelton. The Elizabethan period from 1558-1603 saw the High Renaissance and writers including Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare.
This document outlines the major time periods, terms, movements, and examples of notable authors in English literature from Old English to contemporary times. It discusses Old English from 600-1200 AD, exemplified by Beowulf. The Middle English period lasted from 1200-1500, with Geoffrey Chaucer as an example. The English Renaissance spanned 1500-1660 and was followed by the Tudor period from 1500-1558, characterized by humanism and authors like Thomas More and John Skelton. The Elizabethan period from 1558-1603 saw the High Renaissance and writers including Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare.
1200-1500 Middle English Geoffrey Chaucer 1500-1660 The English Renaissance 1500- 1558 Tudor Period Humanist Era Thomas More, John Skelton 1558- 1603 Elizabethan Period High Renaissance Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare 1603- 1625 Jacobean Period Mannerist Style (1590-1640) other styles: Metaphysical Poets; Devotional Poets Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, Emilia Lanyer 1625- 1649 Caroline Period
John Ford, John Milton 1649- 1660 The Commonwealth & The Protectorate Baroque Style, and later, Rococo Style Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes 1660- 1700 The Restoration
John Dryden 1700- 1800 The Eighteenth Century The Enlightenment; Neoclassical Period; The Augustan Age Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson 1785- 1830 Romanticism The Age of Revolution William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, the Bronts 1830- 1901 Victorian Period Early, Middle and Late Victorian Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1901- 1960 Modern Period The Edwardian Era (1901-1910); The Georgian Era (1910-1914) G.M. Hopkins, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot 1960- Postmodern and Contemporary Period